Strategic Planning, Coaching, and Advising
Strategic and Operational Planning | Individual and Team Coaching | Strengthening Leadership
Through a unique blend of strategic planning, coaching, and advising, we will
support you to find a clear path forward to transformative change – personal, organizational, and societal.
This is for you if:
- Your organization has grown quickly and organically and needs to put in place strategies, systems and structures that help you articulate and achieve your goals
- Your organization is overwhelmed with competing demands and interests and needs to get laser focused on your priorities
- You’re a leader who feels bombarded by multiple daily requests, conflicting viewpoints, pressure to create a greater impact in your field
- You feel too embroiled in administrative or operational work, and you want to focus more on strategy and building relationships
- You care passionately about your work and about making a difference in the world
When you work with us, you will gain:
- A clear and straightforward way to articulate what you do, why you do it, and how you do it
- An actionable plan to arrive at the future you desire
- Increased ease, efficiency, and impact
- Insight into your own patterns, stories, beliefs, strengths, and next steps
Examples customized planning and coaching packages
Contact us to build your own customized planning and coaching package to support your team to maximize their impact.
Over a two-year span, supported a team that had grown rapidly to:
- Create a strategic plan, operational plans for each team, and a monitoring and evaluation plan
- Learn to integrate a planning approach into their workflow through mentoring and coaching with the management team
Over three months, worked with a team that had expanded their offerings and added staff to:
- Identify their common vision and key priorities
- Determine and address barriers
- Create systems and processes to maximize results
- Enable the director to free up time to focus on strategic leadership
Over three years, worked regularly with an executive director to support him to:
- Prioritize his key work activities
- Trouble-shoot challenges
- Come up with creative solutions
- Communicate effectively to his board
- Implement key initiatives successfully
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning is a dynamic and iterative process, not a one-time event. We work with your team to create a strategic plan that brings in the wisdom of the group. We can then stay by your side to begin implementation of the plan through the creation of operational plans, monitoring and evaluation systems, and organizational support for adopting a planning mindset and approach. This process is flexible and tailored and is ideal for organizations undergoing growth or change.
Coaching
Coaching enhances the performance of individuals and teams and helps them meet personal and professional goals. A coach supports clients enact meaningful change by creating a protected and safe space for a journey of discovery. Through a non-judgemental, positive, and collaborative process, we enable you to reflect on your own practice, challenge your patterns and assumptions, adopt a more holistic perspective, grow in your role as a leader, and take action to create sustained change. Together, we enact a plan to arrive at the future you desire.
Advising
Arrive principal consultant Rachel Mason brings over 20 years of experience working in cross-cultural situations, primarily with Indigenous people and organizations, and life experience with allyship and anti-oppressive approaches. She also brings her deep experience as an educator, facilitator, and learning guide in inquiry-based and learner-led approaches. Over the years, she has learned what works and what doesn’t. She offers insight, new ways of thinking, and strategic advice to help you identify your next steps.
Questions about Coaching
Coaching can happen one-on-one or with a group of people who are working together to become a stronger and more effective team. Coaching is for any individual or group who wants to learn, develop, and grow, both personally and professionally.
In individual coaching, Rachel will be your guide on a journey of to explore your goals and enhance your leadership performance. Using thoughtful and provocative questions and reflections, Rachel will help you to gain insight, identify your patterns of thinking, and find clarity on your next steps. For leaders, coaching will empower you to bring your best every day in support of your organization’s goals.
With team coaching, Rachel will work with teams within your organizations to support their efficacy and bring their impact to the next level. This could include leadership teams, departmental teams, or project teams.
Team coaching will help your team find alignment so you are all moving in the same direction towards strategic goals. Through team coaching, each person’s voice will be heard, which will create ownership and accountability over team goals. Coaching will address team dynamics and strengthen the ability of the team to integrate their work in support of a collective vision, helping your organization to achieve greater momentum in meeting key goals.
Coaching is an investment in talent and performance. Your team members already bring their own passions, skills, and strengths to their roles. Through coaching, they will work to more deeply apply their strengths and to improve in areas that are critical to your organization’s success. Coaching is tailored to the individual and is applied learning through regular practice, reflection, and feedback. This is a powerful way to bring out the best in your people.
Rachel’s approach to coaching is about supporting you to identify your strengths, values, vision, and goals, and to align them in your personal and professional life. As a result, you will feel more competent and fulfilled and will be more effective at the things that matter to you. The purpose of coaching is to unlock your full potential.
“Rachel and Arrive Consulting have been a huge help to our organization for a number of different projects – everything from facilitating organization-wide business planning to developing plans and processes that have increased FPCC’s capacity to communicate its organizational vision. Arrive’s work is consistently high-quality and the team takes a client-centered approach, providing flexibility and responsiveness through all aspects of the project. We feel confident working with Arrive, as we know our projects will be done well and completed on time!”
Tracey Herbert, CEO, First Peoples’ Cultural Council
